page_title: 1940
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 1940 / Births / March
caption_attribution_description: English: James Caan at the Cannes film festival
context_page_description: 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1940th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 940th year of the 2nd millennium, the 40th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1940s decade.
  A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280.
context_section_description: March 1
  David Broome, Welsh Show Jumper
  Nuala O'Faolain, Irish journalist, author (d. 2008)
  March 2 – Billy McNeill, Scottish football player and manager (d. 2019)
  March 3
  Germán Castro Caycedo, Colombian writer, journalist
  March 4 – Vladimir Morosov, Soviet athlete
  March 6 – Willie Stargell, American baseball player (d. 2001)
  March 7
  Rudi Dutschke, German radical student leader (d. 1979)
  Viktor Savinykh, Soviet cosmonaut
  Daniel J. Travanti, American actor
  March 9 – Raul Julia, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1994)
  March 10
  Chuck Norris, American actor, martial artist
  Dean Torrence, American singer (Jan and Dean)
  March 12 – Al Jarreau, African-American singer (d. 2017)
  March 13 – Candi Staton, American singer
  March 15 – Phil Lesh, American musician (Grateful Dead)
  March 16
  Jan Pronk, Dutch politician, diplomat
  James Wong Jim, Hong Kong composer (d. 2004)
  March 17 – Mark White, Governor of Texas (d. 2017)
  March 21 – Solomon Burke, African-American singer, songwriter (d. 2010)
  March 20 – Paul Neville, Australian politician (d. 2019)
  March 22 – Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian actor (The Killing Fields) (d. 1996)
  March 25
  Anita Bryant, American entertainer
  Mina, Italian singer
  March 26
  James Caan, American actor
  Nancy Pelosi, American politician; Speaker and Minority Leader (alternately) of the United States House of Representatives
  March 27 – Austin Pendleton, American actor, playwright, theatre director and instructor
  March 29
  Ray Davis, African-American musician (P-Funk) (d. 2005)
  Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian-born singer
  March 30 – Jerry Lucas, American professional basketball player
  March 31
  Barney Frank, American politician
  Patrick Leahy, American politician
caption: James Caan
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